Graine 2 - Foreign Rights Catalog

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But what does Graine2 mean?

Graine means SEED in French.

Graine2 is a publishing house founded in 2002

by 4 passionate partners. The idea? Publishing

children books, with the strong conviction that

in each child, there is a seed of passion which

will grow!

Travel books for kids, activity books, picture

books and novels… Graine2 offers interactive

books, always both fun and instructive to

encourage children to be actual actors of their

reading. Here is the spirit of Graine2.

Enjoy this journey of discovery!

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€11.90 15x21 cm

96 to 112 pages7 years+

The Travelling Kids SeriesLaunched in 2008, the Travelling Kids

Series has very quickly become a success.

Especially thought up for young travelers from 7 to 12, these cityguides turn each child into great travelers. Vocabulary, style,thematic: everything is conceived to give them the taste oftravelling together with practical ideas for their tourist trip. The two mascots, Alex and Maya, escort children the entire tripalong throughout the whole collection.

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Titles available: London, Paris, Provence and French Riviera,New York, Rome, Spain, Barcelona, Châteaux of the Loire,Marrakech, New York, Venice.

You will find in each guide:- The most interesting cultural aspectsof the city- Indications on fauna and flora- Some charmingly original walkingtours- A travel journal and a visit notebook tobe filled in by the child to record theirholiday memories in - A removable map with must-see visitsfor the whole family- An amazing treasure hunt to visit everynook and cranny of the city with!- Several pages of quizzes and games... And much more!

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A family visit of LondonA family visit of New-York

This new series of travelling books is a collection of greatideas and good tips to prepare a trip and to choose the spotsaccording to the age of the children and to everyone’s taste!The special thing about this collection is that it featuresstories of families living in different areas of the city; theyshare their everyday life and give their favorites plans.

In the family guides, you can find:• A selection of the best accommodations in town for

families• A great number of tips to travel with children without

spending too much money• All the essential practical information• A selection of activities classified under 12 themes• The selection of the best addresses to go shopping with

children• The selection of the best “family-friendly” restaurants• A city map by areas with all the information you need

to find your way in town

A new series of guides dedicated to the parents who

travel with their entire clan!

€12.90 12x21 cm160 pagesSoft cover

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Cro magnon !What about following the steps and

sharing the day-to-day life of the men

and women who have lived 28,000 years

ago?

This funny book puts together hilarious activities, comical comicstrips, illustrated information… and includes everything about the Cro Magnon’s life – food, animals, art, clothes, language and beliefs…Lighting a fire without a match, building a prehistoric tool,creating a fossil, making a beggar’s bag or cooking CROOKIES:that will become so easy thanks to this book! With its animal-skin-like cover, its leather shoe-lace, and its tiger teeth, this book is proper time travel.

€19.9019x26 cm92 pages

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By Muriel Zürcher,illustrated by Phicil

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The Mad Scientist BookThrough the voice of the Mad

Scientist, and his hilarious anecdotes, this titleis a true initiation handbook for children to becomemad scientists themselves. Four major steps arenecessary through this scholarship. Each time manywild experiences have been prepared for theapprentice: changing ink into dust, lightening gravity,making strange bubbles, take light out of sugar, etc.Each experience is detailed step-by-step andexplanations help understand the secrets of scientists.

€19.9026x31cm160 pagesHard cover

By Muriel Zücher and Stéphane Hurtez, illustrated by Raphaël Houée

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ChronobooksChronobook is a new concept ofchronological leporello book, made of 12 flaps for a totallength of 2 metres! On one side, Chronobook presents afully illustrated panorama, with dots indicating the keydates to remember for each subject. On the other side,short texts explain the history and help children get theessential of the period. Presented in a square box, thischronological panorama can be stored on the bookshelvesof be hanged up to decorate the bedroom, or theclassroom! Chronobook is a new way to look at history,understand its course and remember its great moments.

€9.90 16x16 cm,

2-metre long whenunfolded

12 flaps, full colour both sides

Illustrated by Grégory Blot

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3 titles available:Chronobook DinosaursChronobook PrehistoryChronobook Great Inventions7 years +

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My First Chef BoxBy Nathalie Cahet, illustrated by Fabien Veançon

Already more than 10 000 copies of this cookery box have been sold,which includes a quality cotton hat, a wooden spatula and a beautifulcookery book... everything to become a talented chef ! It offerssimple yet original recipes to give kids the desire to get started in thekitchen! Starters, main course, deserts and snacks... a total of 48 ideasto go on a real cooking adventure. Health information also initiateschildren to nutrition. All the recipes have been tested, tasted andapproved by children. And pictures of the meals are beautiful yet trueto life, so let’s taste it now!

My First Chocolate Box

Inside:A white

cotton hat

€19.90A cardboard box:

21x27x2 cmThe book: 21x27 cm96 pages


21x27x2 cmThe book: 21x27 cm128 pages

Inside: With a cotton hat

and an apron

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By Nathalie Cahet, illustrated by Fabien Veançon

Following the success of the My First Chef Box, here are 48 recipesfor chocolate lovers. The recipes have been created so that childrenhave playful moments while cooking. They are simple yet original.Great basics such as muffins or cookies are reinvented. New recipesinclude the chocolate salami or the chocolate cheesecake! Alongwith an artistic yet realistic photograph, they are also illustratedwith original and funny characters.

Finger FoodNo forks and no knives needed here – you

can eat all these recipes with your fingers!

Sorted according to the “occasion”, they fit for different kinds of partiesand evenings! TV dinners (chicken nuggets, potatoes, calzone goatcheese and rocket), picnics (choux pastry filled with cheese, briochefilled with pesto), improvised pre-dinner buffets (spicy breadsticks,sausage rolls), fancy parties (salmon tartar with apples, gyozas, nems,skewers of duck with pineapples, salmon wraps)!48 easy-to-make and delicious recipes, with large pictures and funnycharacters to help children take their first steps in the kitchen.

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€20.9021x27 cm 128 pagesHard cover

By Nathalie Cahet,illustrated by Fabien Veançon

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€22,50The book: 21x27 cm

96 pagesOne spiral notebook: 21x27 cm

64 pagesA cardboard box:

22x28x3,5 cm

With cape and mask

to customize


21x27x5cmThe book:21x27cm80 pages

My Little Artist BoxBy Sandrine Andrews, illustrated by Fabien Veançon

Here is a journey at the heart of art history and its surprisinganecdotes, from rock paintings to contemporary art! This great boxincludes a humorous book to discover art history, and an activitynotebook to create work of art in the same way as the most famouspainters. Children will discover the major art movements from theclassics to the most contemporary ones and the most emblematicpainters in a dynamic and playful manner. Techniques, funnydrawings and tips guide children through each step of the creationprocess.

My Super Hero BoxBy Béatrice Gernot, illustrated by Bérengère Delaporte

A complete set to know everything about super-heroes and becomeone yourself through 15 steps. The book identifies the emblematicsuper-heroes from Batman to Superman, The Mask, Ironman andothers. They are all described with their powers, costumes andexploits… Then follow the guide to become a super-hero! Developyour neurons; recognise the bad one, etc. After a final test, you caneven choose a name, a logo, super-powers and costume. A hilariousand creative activity book!

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Inside: 5 wall stickers and 5 stencils


22x28x3,5cm 144 pages

€20,9015x21cm64 pages

My Beauty WorkshopBy Karina Perez, illustrated by Claire Le Gal

Long live natural beauty! Thanks to My Beauty workshop,young girls will feel comfortable in their own body, andfirst and foremost in their heads!In My Beauty Workshop, you will find:- A vanity case in printed cotton- An illustrated book narrated by two pictured mascotswho provide good tips on how to take care of yourself - 20 tutorial cards, for example on how to hydrate yourskin and coil your hair in a bun...- 10 recipe cards, on how to prepare your own cosmeticproducts.

My Deco BoxBy Alexia and Stéphanie Rosanis, illustrated by Claire Le Gal

Here is a sparkling box dedicated to young girls looking forideas to decorate their own bedroom. Inside, 40 new objectsor decorations that they can create on their own: how todecorate paper lamp and create a soft light, how to reorganizeyour desk...The book is made of 4 major parts:- Ground rules of decoration (how light your bedroom,match the colors, re-use and transform furniture…)- Techniques (painting, wallpaper, stencils…)- Atmospheres (Zen, pop, retro…)- Fourth part: 40 examples of objects and decorations!

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Cats from Aroundthe World to Colour

Horses from Aroundthe World to Colour

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Let’s follow globetrottercats and horses fromone country to another,through beautifulcolouring pagesto fill-in. This largeformat allows childrento invest in acoloring activity with a real artistic process.

€8.9024x32 cm32 pages7 years +

Illustrated by Emilie Lapeyre

Illustrated byMaeve Parker

A Book at SeaA Book at Sea is a community book, to writetogether with friends or people you don’t know, going from onehand to the other like a bottle at sea. For each chapter, everyonebecomes a famous writer and has fun inventing a story. Each authorbrings his/her contribution, according to his/her desire or skills, andthen hands it over!At the end of the voyage, A Book at Sea becomes a unique creativebook and a fascinating experience for its authors-partners.Little ones and grown-ups - everyone can participate by writing atext, making a drawing, sticking a collage. Advices and directions arehere to guide the authors and help to write a fantastic story, so thatthey can share, have fun and create.

Everything you can do with A Book at Sea:- Have fun (forget the crisis and the little bothers of everyday life)- Imagine that you’re a famous writer (would you choose Proust orDan Brown?)- Create (leave a trace to posterity, perhaps someone will find outyour manuscript in onehundred years!)- Offer it – It’s the NEW essential present for all birthdays andweddings- Offer it to yourself – that’s always nice- Have a party – to celebrate the day you bought this fantastic book- Have a bigger party – to celebrate the day you finished yourmasterpiece- Pick the best writer – and offend all the others- Bury it, forget it, and find it again again10 years later

By Alix Minime

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€14.9024x32 cm32 pages

One spiral notebook

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When I am a Grown Up

€10.9022x28cm112 pages

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Illustrated by Marie de Monti

What will you do when you grow up? If you have no answer to thisquestion, you can try out 50 silly and creative activities: become a catmoustache barber, or a veterinary surgeon for red ants… Surely you’llfind your way! An unusual and funny coloring book.

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Dingo!My Crazy Activity Book 1 and 2

€8.9022x28cm56 pages

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Illustrated by Marie de Monti

And what if roosters laid eggs? What if it snowed sweets? What if we could walkupside down on our hands? And what if Cinderella wore Velcro shoes? Askyourself existential questions you never thought about before… And illustrate, colorand scribbles these 30 funny proposals!

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The Crazy Adventure of Cuddly Toy in Paris

€14.9026x31cm40 pages

Hard cover

By Raphaëlle Barbenègre

Cuddly Toy has been forgotten at the feet of the Eiffel Tower! Butwhen humans don’t watch them, Cuddly toys have a very active life...In a picnic basket, on the back of a dog, in a business woman’shandbag: Cuddly Toy is reluctantly brought through Paris and itsemblematic places. From the Champs Elysées to Notre Dame, fromthe catacombs to a café terrace… where will Cuddly Toy finally arrive?A vivid large-framed picture book with high quality graphics.

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London - so british!

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Illustrated by Erica Salcedo Saiz

For every thematic, a fun activity provides the keys tounderstand the British capital. From the Tower of Londonto Tower Bridge, from pubs to tea time, from thestreet phones to Sherlock Holmes, the book invites todiscover the city and its inhabitants, thanks to 30 sobritish activities!

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I Draw, I travel!

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Paris to color

New-York to color

Through 15 paintings to color,let’s visit the most emblematicplaces of Paris, and discoverthe true Parisian way of life -the Eiffel Tower and thefireworks of the 14th of July,the Louvres and the mommies,Les Champs-Elysées and itscrowded pavements... A greatnumber of different areas, fromthe most posh to the mostpopular!

What about paying a visitto the famous FreedomStatue, hanging around inTimes Square, jogging withsome friends in CentralPark, or having a stunningevening in one ofBroadway’s musicals? Thisbook will make youdiscover all these fantasticplaces, and much more!

A new series of very artistic and fashionnable

coloring books to discover cities from all around the world.

Illustrated by Josie Portillo

€12.9018x36cm 32 pagesSoft cover

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The Fidget Gang

€14.9026x31cm40 pages

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By Muriel Zürcher, illustrated by Bérengère Delaporte

This is a new concept in books to make toddlers and young kids movetheir bodies! Be careful: reading this book and looking at the nicepictures is not enough, first you have to do everything that thecharacters ask you to: stick your tongue out, laugh, find the secretcode, pedal as fast as you can, breathe out as strong as you can… Your goal: to be admitted in the famous Fidget gang! Good luck…

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Tom SpudBy Emmanuelle Maisonneuve, illustrated by François Gomes

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€19.9026x31cm

192 to 248 pagesb&w illustrations

Hard cover

Tom Spud is the extraordinary

adventure of a young boy, the

size of a potato!

First discovered in a big potato in a garden, TomSpud is soon adopted by the Granmanitous, a secretsociety that protects garden animals. But Tom isdesperate to discover its true origins. In the searchfor his identity, he will approach the doors ofanother marvellous and dangerous world, the worldof his origins…This wonderful novel mixes adventure, fantasy,feelings and ecology, creating a work of fiction thatwill delight children.

More than 18 000 copies sold. Book club rights sold to Pocket.

A three-volume novelVol 1: The Secret Society of the GranmanitousVol 2: The Hidden Land of Alba SpinaVol 3: Eïlandihis or the Infuriated Nonnes

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Paris, Legends and MysteryThere are a large number of rumors going

around in Paris... There would be a phantom in theopera, mummies would be buried under the Place de la Bastille, anda man with an Iron mask would be kept imprisoned by the cruelKing Louis XIV of France...Here are 15 famous and captivating novelized legends! After each

legend, an illustrated double spread, The Mystery News Sheet, exposes the historical sources and the real facts.

A fascinating book, beautifully illustrated, with a gorgeous lay-out.

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By Julia Raison, illustrated by Karim Friha

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Creatures, Legends and Mystery

This second volume focuses on the mythical

and legendary creatures from all around

the world. 15 frightful stories inspired by legendary creatures: Dracula, the Loch Ness Monster, the Gremlins, Frankenstein…After each legend, an illustrated double spread, The Mystery News Sheet,exposes the historical sources and the real facts. A fascinating book, beautifully illustrated, with a gorgeous lay-out.


By Muriel Zürcher, illustrated by Karim Friha

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Beyond the Frozen LandsBenjamin Thenor’s Extraordinary Trips

Travelling through Finland with his

father, reporter, Benjamin soon

realizes that something is strange

he can speak to animals, see creatures adults can’t see…Does it come from being in Lapland, from him, or fromthe locket his mother gave him before she disappeared? A thrilling novel mixing narration, illustrations and comics, which transport the reader to a freezing landscapeand a fascinating adventure.


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By Ronan Le Breton, illustrated by François Gomes

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The Ostrich doesn’t get goose bump!

The Mammoth takes the plunge!After The Ostrich Doesn’t Get Goose Bump, here is thesecond title of a great series about emotions! Mylathinks she’s too fat. Her worst nightmare? Being inswimsuit in front of her schoolmates at theswimming pool.And the swimming pool day is... today! She decidesto hide in a bush before the bus leaves. But a strangewoman with a green scarf suddenly appears and begsMyla to look after her pet for a couple of days... Butwhat a pet! Myla unwillingly becomes a mammoth-sitter. She will soon forget the swimming pool, theswimsuit, and her shame! A witty text and a characterto which every child can easily identify.

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By Muriel Zu ̈rcherOlivier Pelletier

€11.9014x21cm128 pagesSoft cover

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Graine 26, rue au Pain 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye France

T: +33 (0)1 39 10 04 07

Director: Emilie [email protected]

http://www.graine2-editions.com

Foreign rights:Stéphanie Vernet142 avenue Parmentier75011 Paris - [email protected]

www.thepicturebookagency.comT: +33 (0)9 73 61 64 43

We will attend the Frankfurt and BolognaInternational Book fairs in 2014, and wouldlove to meet you there. By then, feel free tocontact us for any question, or if you wish to receive further information.

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